SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash card wins award : SanDisk Corporation announced that its SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash card family have won an Editor's Choice Awards by American PHOTO Magazine. The American PHOTO Editor's Choice Award is one of the most authoritative awards issued in the photography publishing industry and symbolizes the high levels of quality and performance. "Each year, the editors of American PHOTO select from hundreds of new products for photographers," said Richard Rabinowitz, vice president/group publisher of American PHOTO. "Only a handful of products pass the key selection requirement that it make a significant improvement in the lives and workflow of photographers who will use these products."

SanDisk - Tanya Chuang
Tanya Chuang, SanDisk's worldwide retail product marketing manager for high performance cards, said, "Winning an Editor's Choice awards is extremely satisfying. We believe the speed and performance of SanDisk's Extreme III is second to none and we are pleased to have this confirmed by such a highly regarded publication. Earning this award is a testament to the commitment and dedication we have made to our customers to offer the best possible storage card products for digital photographers worldwide."

SanDisk Extreme 3 - ESP technology
Yoram Cedar, SanDisk's senior vice-president of engineering, said, "SanDisk has developed a new ESP (Enhanced Super-Parallel Processing) technology that gives our new SanDisk Extreme III line its performance advantages. ESP technology is a major technology breakthrough that combines our in-house design of both NAND flash memory chips and controller chips using advanced 32-bit RISC processing and leading edge algorithms. Our engineers worked closely with major camera manufacturers in developing our new ESP technology." Cedar also explained, "ESP has super-parallel write and read operations that are coupled with an accelerated flash data bus architecture to allow data to be transferred at twice the rate of most competitive cards. In addition, the ESP architecture streamlines every aspect of read and write data transfer operations through advanced hardware automation. The ESP architecture effectively removes the card as the bottleneck in data storage applications."

SanDisk Extreme III - Ideal for the professional
SanDisk Extreme III cards are ideal for professional-level digital SLRs that can take advantage of its read and write speeds of up to 20-megabytes per second (MB/sec). They are available in CompactFlash, Memory Stick PRO and SD card formats. The CompactFlash and Secure Digital cards have minimum write and read speeds of 20MB/sec. Memory Stick PRO has minimum write and read speeds of 18MB/sec. The cards range in capacity between 1 and 4GB.

About SanDisk
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.